"The past few months have been the toughest in our storied history," McGuirk said. "We are excited to have Alex lead our baseball operations team and begin a bright, new chapter for our organization. We chose Alex because he is of the highest character and has a wealth of MLB leadership experience. He is one of the elite baseball executives in our industry and is the perfect person to lead us to a World Series."

Prior to joining the Dodgers, Anthopoulos spent six seasons as the Toronto Blue Jays' general manager, which culminated in an American League East title in 2015 to snap Toronto's 22-year postseason drought. Anthopoulos was selected as Sporting News' MLB Executive of the Year that season. He originally joined Toronto following the 2003 season as a scouting coordinator and earned a promotion to vice president, baseball operations and assistant general manager in 2006 before taking over as GM on October 3, 2009.

Anthopoulos, 40, began his baseball career with the Montreal Expos as a media relations intern in 2000 before transitioning to international scouting and serving as Montreal's coordinator for amateur and professional scouting for the 2002 and 2003 seasons.

A native of Montreal, Anthopoulos is fluent in English and French, and he also speaks some Spanish and Greek, which he utilized in helping to assemble the Greek national team for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Anthopoulos studied economics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

He and his wife, Cristina, have a daughter, Julia, and a son, John.